About the Authors
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Organizations:
The University of Minnesota Cooperative Extension Service has perhaps the largest library of parenting information available to Americans. Click on their name to visit their extensive website. We are extremely fortunate their information is on-line.
Other organizations: are credited in the articles and links are found at the end of the articles.
Individuals:
Joan Churchill is the parentingthought.org website builder and is the director of the Family Support, Supported Journey, Parent Partners, and parenting education programs at Community Concepts. She is a mom of a 13 year old daughter.
Brenda Dyer is the human resources director at Community Concepts. She is the mom of 2 adult children, and the grandmother of 4 youngsters.
Kelly Stevens is a parent educator with Community Concepts. She is the mom of an 11 year old daughter.
Rhonda Beaudet is a registered nurse for Community Concepts' Early Head Start and Head Start Program. She is the mom of 3 boys who are now in High School and College.